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I don& #39;t have time to make a Spike on the Mic about Jeweled Lotus, but my thoughts are easy to summarize. This is all I plan on saying about it. (thread)
1) I think people are overestimating the power level. This card increases the number of extreme top-end scenarios for decks that are typically inconsistent, but I don& #39;t think it moves the needle much on the average power level of a deck that runs it.
2) As @JoshLeeKwai has been saying, I think the fact that it adds to the number of non-games is probably the most problematic thing about the card, not its raw power level.
3) The community is notoriously bad at assessing cards before they& #39;ve played with them. I& #39;m not saying everyone& #39;s wrong and I& #39;m right, but if this is actually problematic we can talk about it in 6 months. The format won& #39;t die between now and then.
3) The preorder price is laughably, ridiculously high. Don& #39;t light your money on fire like that.
4) As more powerful cards get printed it pushes me further into an anti-ban attitude. WotC isn& #39;t very agile when it comes to adjusting to problems in formats. If we identify a problem today it will take them years to course correct, even if they agree there& #39;s a problem.
Something like 1000 new cards get added to the format every year and we& #39;re not going to be able to ban our way out of any systemic problems that exist in development.
